A mystic declaration links all its cosmography to a concrete moment in history.

You can cherish life and surrender it when you know that it is never insignificant, that your story matters, that you exist to love the author of our tale.

Jesus does not draw attention to the widow and her “two small coins” because he wants you to do some good work or to donate a certain percentage of your resources.

We experience the death of others—but not as they do. We only know that they are gone, and that fact alone is nigh impossible to comprehend.

The utter multitude of souls created and redeemed by God is necessary to imagine even a fraction of God’s plenitude.

Many of us avoid contemplative prayer because we are more afraid of God’s non-existence than we are sure that we will experience God’s presence.